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No. 563,721'. Patented July 7, 1896,

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COMBINED HALTER AND WEANING MUZZLE.

No. 563,721. Patented July 7, 1896.-

Tm: wams vacas co.. Pn o., wnsmNn-ron n c UNITED Srnfrns Enrnivr Ormea OTTINUS E. SOHOV AND JOHN E. SOIIOV, OF CLIFTON, TEXAS, ASSlGNORS TO P. E. SOHOV Lb BROTHERS, OF SAME PLAGE.

COMBINED HALTER AND WEANING-MUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 563,721, dated July 7, 1896, Application filed February 5, 1895. Serial No; 537,339, (No modem To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, Or'rrNUs E. Sorrow and JOHN E. SCHOW, citizens of the United States, residing at Clifton, in the county of Bosque and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful improvements in a Combined Halter and Weaning-Muzzle; and we do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the inio vention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to improvements in combined halters and weaninganuzzles.

The object of. our invention is to provide a combined halter and weaning-muzzle, the halter being adapted for use independently of the muzzle and the latter being detachably connected to the halter.

2o In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure l is a perspective view of a halter embodying our invention with the weaning-band detached. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of our halter,

showing the weaning device attached. Ilig.y 3 is a detail view in section of the weaning device or band. Eig. a is a detail view of a modification of our means for attaching the weaning-muzzle. Fig. 5 is a detail view-of a 3o modification of our means for securing the prongs to the muzzle. 6 is a detail view of our halter trimming or buckle. Fig. 7 is a detail view ot one of the prongs detached7 and Eig. 8 is a modication ci' our means for bracing the prongs.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, A denotes a halter having the nose and chin strap B formed in one piece provided with a buckle h and detachably connected to 4o the cheek-straps a c by the buckles or triminings C C, as shown in Fig. l. In Fig. 2 said strap B forms the chin-strap only, and is disconnected from the tongues of the trimmings C C and looped through the bars thereof instead, thus giving pla-ce for the attachment to the tongues of said trimmings of the weaning nose-band.

D denotes the weaning nose-band, formed ot' three straps or thicknesses of material.

5o Through the middle and upper thicknesses ot' materialproject a series of prongs E E, arranged crosswise thereof in pairs and formed of one piece of flattened metal having a conn mon head, as shown in Eig. 7. e denote metal rivets passing through said straps be- 5 5 tween each pair of prongs, thus securing the materials together and clamping and bracing the prongs in position upon each side. The ilat head of the prongs is held between the lower strap and the middle strap. The for- 6o mer prevents their downward escape or pressure upon the nose of the animal, while the latter prevents their upward escape. The upper or top strap is made of metal, and serves to brace and hold the ends of the prongs together. In Eig. 5 we have shown a niodiiication of this arrangement, in which the mid die strap is made of metal and the upper and lower straps of leather. Again, in Fig. 8 we have shown a modiiica-tion in which instead 7o of a single metal strap we provide a series of metal clamps,perforated and adapted to engage with each pair of prongs.

In Fig. 4 we show a weaning nose-band formed of three straps, the lower one of which 7 5 is longer, its ends extending downwardly and provided with slots d, through which passes the chin-strap B.

Our halter-trimmin gs C O serve to connect the cheek-straps to the nose-band B to form Se the halter proper, as shown in Fig. l, orto connect the weaning nose-band. As shown in Eig. 6, said trimming is fra-med like a barbuckle and is provided with a rigid tongue c and slots or openings c' c', formed' in the side 8 5 bars,through which pass the ends of the cheek straps.

In order to provide ample space for the accommodation of the intersecting straps in the center and connection of the strap B when 9o used as a chin-strap, said trimmings have the side bars amply rockered, as shown. The cheek-straps are provided with perforations c' to shorten the same, it desired, and the band B of the halter proper is provided with 9 5 perforations l) above as well as below, as shown in Fig. l, in order that the upper part or noseband of the muzzle may be adjust able, as well as the under part or chin-strap.

lt will be found in practice that our invenroo tion dispenses with the necessity heretofore of providing' both a common halter and a weaning-halter for each animal. It will also be found that the construction disclosed is of great advantage in preventing the loosening and dislodgment of the prongs of the weaning noseband. Again, by the arrangement of the prongs in pairs erosswise of the weaning nose-band there is less liability of injuring the mother, as the two prongs, being near together and at equal elevations around the nose, Will generally bear at the saine time and prevent either from entering too far, as the pressure is divided between them.

IIa-ving thus described our invention, the

following is what We claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

In a halter the combination of a chin-strap and nose-band made in one piece, a weaning nose-band, and means for detaehably conneeting and interehanging said nose and weaning nose band, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof. We hereunto aiiix our signatures in presence of two Witnesses.

OTTINUS E. SCI-IOW'v JOHN E. SCHO\V. lVitnesses:

J No. ANDERSON, Aires BAss. 

